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Incompatible Stories

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Posted here is an invitation to colleagues in the field of family business conflict resolution, to pool our experience and insights about one of the most difficult impasses we frequently face in consulting to family firms. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated, whether as comments on this thread or privately as email. Please also bring [...]

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Tags: conflict, family history, feuds, psychodynamics
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Stanford Law no substitute for understanding the family business?

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

The paper that broke the Watergate scandal and boasts more than 40 Pulitzer prizes found itself with ink on its face this week, over a “pay to play” invitation for lobbyists to get special contacts with Post reporters and editors.

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Tags: boards, family history, legacy, succession
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Family trees: the look forward

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Michael Kleiman, son of our friend and family business dynamics colleague Jerry Kleiman, has been posting on The Huffington Post about the production of his documentary film The Last Survivor. In this last post, Michael describes one of the conversations in his film, between a refugee newly arrived in St. Louis, imagining the family tree [...]

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Tags: biography, family history, film, legacy
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